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Re: [RFCv2] mac80211: Don't let regulatory make us deaf

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On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 08:36:14AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 21:46 -0800, Paul Stewart wrote:
> 
> > >> Of course, if this we actually happen to come across a device that needs
> > >> this it could set a flag somehwere and mac80211 could re-configure the
> > >> channel to non-HT on the assoc request, but right now I'd rather not
> > >> worry about that since we're moving towards multi-channel and have no
> > >> indication of such devices existing. Agree?
> > >
> > > Yeah, that works for me.
> > 
> > Discussions seem to have come to an end here, however I'm not sure
> > what we ended up deciding. :-)  I see mention of HT+TKIP -- not sure
> > I'm familiar enough with what the issues are there -- as well as
> > pushing the channel configuration earlier and perhaps changes to the
> > association process.  Since I may not have a complete handle on all
> > these adjacent issues, where do we want to go with the current change
> > (fixes a real-life issue) and how do we want to stage that with
> > respect to the other issues this seems to have brought to the surface?
> 
> This discussion really side-tracked somewhat -- we were discussing a
> better/different solution. I'm OK with your patch, but since I'll be
> touching the code again to address the other things we talked about it'd
> be great if you could test after that again, maybe in a week or two?

So, should I wait to merge Paul's patch until after the merge window
(i.e. only merge it for 3.5)?

John
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